When I lived in San Antonio, Texas, the underground was a giant aquifer. In fact, the San Antonio river comes bubbling out of the ground there. Many folks have wells. The water is not far down, but you do have to drill through some limestone to get to it, then it may gush out.
Regards, Bob... -------------------------------------------------------- "Life isn't like a box of chocolates . . it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow." ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Digital Image Studio" > Subject: Re: K10D AS system [OT] water restrictions > >> If you appreciated the hydrology of the area and the potential for >> (additional) salinity problems associated with overuse of groundwater >> resources then you may understand why actions were taken to regulate >> these resources. > > Southern Saskatchewan is an oil producing region, but over the past > several > years, oil production slowed down as the wells were running dry. The big > oil > solution was to pump groundwater into the wells, thereby displacing the > deep > oil pockets up to a level that was pumpable. > Now we are living with drought conditions worse than the dirty 30s, and > there is little groundwater left to pump, and what is pumped has such a > high > salinity content that it isn't potable anyway. > This is what happens when you allow twits to run things. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
